Bethesda’s games are complicated beasts, filled with all sorts of cheese wheels and sweetrolls and duct tape for you to pick up and do physics crimes with. It’s not a surprise, then, that the games have their fair share of bugs that evade the notice of Bethesda’s official patches. That’s why we have community patches—Morrowind’s…
A few days before the launch of Cities: Skylines 2, Paradox Interactive issued a warning about the game’s performance—specifically, that it might be a little less than ideal, especially on lower-end hardware. Sure enough, this was our experience: “random fps dips, slowdowns and hitches, and sometimes complete freezes that lasted a few seconds,” along with…
In Starfield, there’s a quest where you get to betray a major player. I’m going to keep the details vague to avoid spoilers, but in a lot of other RPGs this would be a massive story moment. If you walk down this path, you’ll never be able to interact with that faction again. You’re signing…
A legend returns. For Nintendo fans, the Metal Gear franchise has long been just out of reach, with Konami dangling the metaphorical carrot with one-off releases such as Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes on GameCube, Ghost Babel on Game Boy Color, and Snake Eater 3D on the 3DS. After decades of neglect, however, Switch…
You really have to feel for AMD’s graphics engineers. Every time it looks like they’re catching up with Nvidia—boom!—Team Green rolls out some new technowizardry and it’s back to playing catch up. And if market analysis and Steam survey data is anything to go by, what effort AMD does put in is for nought. Nvidia…
Coming 2024 to your Game Boy Color. The Game Boy Color has received a ton of excellent homebrew games over the years, and Dracula: Dark Reign looks to be another to add to that growing pile. Developed by Spacebot Interactive and published by incube8 Games (the duo behind the Game Boy Color RPG Dragonyhm), the…
Creative Assembly’s latest strategy deep-dive into a raucous period of history takes us to Ancient Egypt in the 12th Century BC. As this part of the world hurtles towards the collapse of the Bronze Age, the Egyptians, Hittites, and Canaanites already have much of their histories behind them, with rich pantheons of gods and historical…
“Everything EAD made had to be completely fresh and new”. Giles Goddard has had quite the career. The British game developer got his start in the late 1980s at the London studio Argonaut Software, before receiving the incredible opportunity to travel to Japan (while still a teenager) to work with Nintendo on the original Star…
Liked Starfield? Hated Starfield? You probably have Todd Howard to thank. A recent chat between MinnMax and Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith shed some light on Bethesda’s structure and organisation, and it sure sounds like pretty much every choice the company makes needs Howard’s stamp of approval before it can go ahead, even as it’s…
I’ve been working on something special in the form of a messed up Cities: Skylines 2 layout, courtesy of you, the people. It’s a design that really speaks to us at PC Gamer, and cements our followers as true, unfaltering disciples of the one true Geralt. I’ve had a chance to play around with some…